VOA慢速英语:Is Secondhand Smoke Child Abuse?

短语讲解：

1. Doctors have been warning for years that secondhand smoke leads to many types of illness.

lead to 导致
例句：These might possibly lead to riots. 
这些也许会导致骚乱。 

2. A journal called Annals of Family Medicine recently published an article calling for doctors to start treating children's contact with secondhand smoke as abuse.

call for 需要
例句：Different circumstances call for different tactics. 
不同的情势需要不同的策略。 

3. They say that compared to children who grow up in homes without smokers, children with parents who smoke have smaller lungs and more illnesses.

compare to 把…比作， 喻为; 与…相比
例句：Cultural life in the country cannot compare to that of a large city. 
农村的文化生活不能与大城市的相比拟。 

4. The article about secondhand smoke and children comes at the same time the World Health Organization is increasing calls to fight against tobacco companies.

at the same time 同时
例句：I can' t be in two places at the same time ! 
我不能同时在两个地方！ 

5. About one billion people are also expected to die from smoking and other forms of tobacco over the next century.

die from 死于（某种原因，不包括疾病、过度悲伤等）
例句：Every winter some old people die from hypothermia. 
每年冬天都有些老人死于体温过低。